Eudore Pirmez

Eudore Pirmez (born February 14, 1830 in Marcinelle , † March 2, 1890 in Brussels ) was a Belgian statesman .

Pirmez studied law and became a lawyer in Charleroi in 1851. He was a member of the Chamber from 1857 and held the Ministry of the Interior from 1868 to 1870. While he left it here to the local administrations to use the clergy to participate in popular education or not, in 1879 he disapproved of the school rules implemented by his party comrades and in 1884 the school regulations implemented by the clericals as encroachments on personal freedom or that of the local administrations.

Pirmez took the position of an idealist of freedom in purely political as well as in economic questions and represented his views with unusual erudition and intellect. Often he took a mediating position between his party comrades and the opposing government. The Malou cabinet had him appointed minister of state when the government changed in 1884. In 1887 he was, although a supporter of the gold standard, representative of Belgium at the conference of the Latin Coin Union and from 1889–1890 as President of the State Council of the Congo State member of the anti-slavery congress in Brussels. At the same time he was issuing a much-discussed pamphlet on the trade crisis.

He died in Brussels on March 2, 1890.

literature

Albert Nyssens : Eudore Pirmez . Polleunis & Ceuterick, Brussels 1893.

personal data
SURNAME	Pirmez, Eudore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marcinelle
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1890
Place of death	Brussels